Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Telling the Self

by Marina Warner

Book Overview

Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation, vital to natural processes of generation and evolution, growth and decay, yet it also threatens personal identity if human beings are subject to a continual process of bodily transformation. Shape-shifting also belongs in the landscape of magic, witchcraft, and wonder, and enlivens classical mythology, early modern fairy tales and uncanny fictions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In Fantastic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198187262
• ISBN13: 9780198187264
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.6" x 5.7"